Sirs Anthony Hopkins and director Ridley Scott are teaming up to bring Hannibal Lecter back to the big screen.

The actor will reprise his cannibalistic serial killer for the fourth time in a second sequel to the 1991 hit film The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won a Best Actor Oscar. Cate Blanchett has been rumored to take over the role of Clarice Starling, after Jodie Foster pulled out to focus on directing Flora Plum.

A spokesperson for film-makers Universal says, “Hopkins and Scott are both very committed. We like what we’ve got, and the revised script is really, really good.”

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Cate Blanchett is looking for a few good Merry Men.

Per Variety, the Oscar winner has signed on to play Maid Marian in the tentatively titled Nottingham, director Ridley Scott’s big-screen reimagining of the Robin Hood story opposite Russell Crowe.

Blanchett will replace Sienna Miller, who dropped out due to “creative differences.”

Crowe will play the lead, which, depending on how the script turns out, could either be Robin Hood or a reinvented Sheriff of Nottingham.

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The $130 million romantic adventure starts production in April in London for a 2010 release.

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Cate Blanchett says her marriage of 11 years could be over if she goes under the knife.

The actress — who currently stars in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt — tells Vanity Fair: “I haven’t done anything, but who knows. Andrew [Upton] said he’d divorce me if I did anything.”

But that doesn’t mean she’d never mess with her famous face.

“I’m not a spokesperson against the world of injectables,” The 39-year-old actress says. “If you grow up in an environment where your mother gets you a boob job when you turn 18, what hope is there? But I didn’t grow up in that world.

“The reason I went to train as an actor was that I was interested in it for the long haul,” she adds. “You can become very self-obsessed, but you’ve got to keep looking outward.”

Blanchett says her body isn’t the same after the birth of their three sons: Dashiell, 7; Roman, 3 and Ignatius, 7 months.

“When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history.”

“I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person….” she adds.

Plus, Blanchett says plastic surgery doesn’t stave “off the inventible” aging process.

“If you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes,” she says. “The windows to your soul, they say.”

Upton, a playwright, doesn’t mind his wife’s looks, Blanchett says, although he doesn’t focus on them.

“I’m not a trophy. He likes the vessel, but he also wants to make sure the vessel is full.”

Blanchett says she wouldn’t rule out having more children either.

“Who knows? Don’t close those doors. The world is very overpopulated, but we do make nice ones,” she says. “They all look like Andrew. To say he has dominant genes would be an understatement.”

In addition to expanding her brood, Blanchett also has a retirement plan.

“I think I just want to garden — or kill some plants, in my case,” she says.

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“You have to feel confident when people are photographing your toenails – they’re looking for flaws.”

Australian actress Cate Blanchett is paranoid when walking down the red carpet.

Cate Blanchett has signed an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – urging him not to censor a controversial photography exhibition.

Police in Sydney, Australia, shut down an exhibition of photographs by respected artist Bill Henson last week because the show featured naked pictures of 12 and 13-year-old children.

The move has sparked a heated debate in the country over the line between art and pornography.

And Blanchett has come to the defense of the exhibition, insisting Rudd should not block Henson’s work.

The letter reads: “We should remember that an important index of social freedom, in earlier times or in repressive regimes elsewhere in the world, is how artists and art are treated by the state.

“We wish to make absolutely clear that none of us endorses, in any way, the abuse of children. Henson’s work has nothing to do with child pornography and, according to the judgment of some of the most respected curators and critics in the world, it is certainly art.”

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